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Shared Stories from Daughters of Alzheimer's is a support group in print for those escorting a loved one on the Alzheimer's journey.
Nine women map the passage of a parent through Alzheimer's disease, describing the evolution of their own emotional responses to the disease and the changes it effects in the patient and in her relationship with family members. The book invites the reader to take a first step in healing from Alzheimer's ripple effect by beginning to journal about the experience.
"Use the stories here as tools to understand your own painful situation. Employ them to help you empower yourself, sort through your emotions and begin to heal. Seize upon that which makes sense to you and disregard that which seems irrelevant. Then, pick up your favorite pen and notebook and 'talk' about what is going on in your journey with Alzheimer's disease. We wish you well."
--Persis Granger, Editor, Shared Stories from Daughters of Alzheimer's
"An enthralling, ambitious and much-needed effort...most definitely the sort of work on Alzheimer's that needs to get public notice."
--Karla Morales, People's Medical Society
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| $99.99 | Digital |
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Thomas Connolly
reviewed Shared Stories from Daughters of Alzheimer's on September 22, 2014 Shared Stories from Daughters of Alzheimer's
I have weird feelings on this memoir. I have an academic interest in and addiction to women's disease narratives. I also love books that are funny. This book is both, to the point that I had to stop the audio book because I was laughing too much to listen well. For the first five CDs, the book was a 5/5 star kind of book. Then the last CD came along and she said something about a bully from her childhood being a "fourteen year old bulldyke" and I was like wait, what?
Yeah. I don't know whether I should be offended by this book or not, basically. I'm a lesbian; the author is either heterosexual or bisexual with a male partner for the entire book. Norton is African-American, and she speaks bluntly about her experiences with race and as a part of a biracial marriage, including her own internalized racism. And yet I draw the line here, at 'bulldyke'? Is that a fair line for me to draw? I don't know.
Anyway. That distracted me from the last parts of the book, which is sad, because "maybe there's no message (to cancer), maybe it just sucks" is one of the wisest things I've heard any memoir say.
The bit with the woman using taxidermy as a mice repellant is still freaking hysterical, though.
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